Typical....

This is exactly the type of facile, disingenuous, idiotic drivel I've come to expect from our local paper's on-staff editorial cartoonist.  What's his point here?  What is the real message here?  That Saddam could do a better job of quelling the insurgent violence in Iraq than either our military or the new Iraqi defense forces can?

Well, point conceded. 

Keep in mind, however,  that Saddam would have a few more tools in his arsenal that we do.  While we (or by extension, the Iraqi forces) continue to cripple  ourselves with ACLU-ish restrictions on just about every legitimate form of coercion or self-defense, Saddam could return to his former practices of torture, summary execution, and rape.  Libs like Stahler would be just fine with that, apparently.  Abu Ghraib would return to its former owner, and rather than hooded figures being fooled into thinking they were going to be electrocuted or being stacked into nude pyramids, we'd see the real electrocution, drowning, and torture occurring. 

No, I can't argue that Saddam wouldn't be able to bring about "control."  I'm quite sure he could.  I'm just not convinced the end would justify the means.  Stahler apparently is.

That, or he's just partisan jerk.  You be the judge.

Comments

[Rob]

I saw a disturbing video awhile back of the heyday of Sadam's rule. Things like masked and bound men being forced to run off a 4 story building.. hands being chopped off.. execution "parties". I'm sick that the left thinks those were the "Good ol' days".

[tim maguire]

You're quite right, but I have a hard time getting upset about political cartoons these days. Pretty much all of them are simplistic, ignorant cheap shots. Few and far between are the cartoons that say something thoughtful, original, or even just sensible.